Inside Education - a podcast for educators interested in teaching Podcast 386, Professor Mark Morgan on Psychology and Education (22-1-20)
Jan 22, 2020
45:15
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme I speak to Professor Mark Morgan from Dublin City University about psychology, education, his career and his thoughts on education. Among the topics we discuss are the following:
- How he became interested in psychology as a student teacher in St. Patrick’s College
- Being taught by John McNamara (who was known for his study of bilingualism)
- Completing postgraduate studies in London
- Being appointed as lecturer in St. Patrick’s College
- Having Albert Bandura as a tutor when offered a fellowship at Stanford University
- The idea of self efficacy
- His interest in TV and violence, resilience and substance misuse prevention
- The use of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods data in psychology
- His doctoral research on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
- His research on adversity and resilience
- What teachers can do to be more resilient
- How he planned his classes as a teacher educator
- How early home and school experiences influenced his subsequent interests and ideas
- Why psychology is useful for student teachers
- How the field of educational psychology has evolved over the last 50 years
- His involvement in the Growing Up in Ireland study
- Learning in later years
- He recommended Albert Bandura's book Social foundations of thought and action: A social cognitive theory.